**The Economic Work Conference clearly stated that it is necessary to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, especially to promote new industries, new models and new kinetic energy with disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies, and to develop new quality productive forces. This provides scientific guidance for accelerating scientific and technological innovation and promoting high-quality development in the new era and new journey. We should deeply understand and grasp the connotation and characteristics of new quality productivity, recognize the formation law of new quality productivity, create an institutional and institutional environment conducive to the growth of new quality productivity, better integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, and empower high-quality development.
Compared with traditional productivity, new quality productivity refers to the use of a large number of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet, cloud computing, and the close integration of high-quality workers, modern finance, data and information and other elements to give birth to new industries, new technologies, new products, and new business forms. The formation of new quality productivity is a remarkable progress in the means and methods of human transformation of nature, and is the process of accelerating the formation of a development model in which advanced productive forces replace traditional productive forces and have higher quality, efficiency, and more sustainability.
First, it involves new fields. The new quality productivity is mainly generated in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation to give birth to a new generation of strategic emerging industries such as information technology, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, new energy, new materials and other strategic emerging industries, as well as new fields of future industries such as brain-like intelligence, quantum information, deep-sea aerospace development, hydrogen energy and energy storage, with the characteristics of new technology, new elements, new industries, new business forms, new products and services.
Second, the technical content is high. The essence of new quality productivity is innovation-driven, and it is a process in which new technologies continue to emerge and continue to penetrate and integrate in depth, create new products, give birth to new industries, and generate new value, which can promote the rejuvenation of traditional industries, improve the technical level, promote emerging industries to enhance technological leadership, expand new markets, and help future industries to open up new tracks and become new kinetic energy.
Third, the allocation of elements is excellent. The new quality productivity is a transformative breakthrough in the existing industrial organization and factor allocation. The formation of new quality productivity will promote the recombination, continuous optimization and continuous improvement of allocation efficiency of a series of important production factors such as technology, capital, talents, labor, data, land, and management, especially to promote the optimal allocation of data, a new factor of production, deeply empower the transformation and upgrading of the real economy, and promote the improvement of total factor productivity and the leap in productivity development.
On the whole, the formation of new quality productivity is the result of the continuous emergence of new technologies, the continuous optimization of data and other factors into the production function, the relatively smooth "science and technology-industry-finance" cycle, a strong domestic market, high-quality talents and other factors. China has the high-quality soil and good basic conditions for the formation of new quality productivity, and should seize the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, further deepen reform and opening up, strengthen innovation drive, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and gather and promote the formation of new quality productivity.
First, accelerate the emergence of new technologies. With the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, major developed countries have taken the promotion of cutting-edge technological innovation as the main path to seize the commanding heights of science and technology economy and open up new tracks. It is necessary to improve the management system of scientific research institutions, establish a scientific and technological innovation evaluation system that adapts to the formation of new quality productivity, strengthen the multi-path exploration, cross-integration and source supply of disruptive technologies of cutting-edge technologies, and achieve more original breakthroughs. We will further strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, build a social environment and evaluation system that embraces innovation, encourages risk-taking, and tolerates failure, and creates an institutional environment that encourages invention, creation, and innovation and entrepreneurship. Accelerate the establishment of an innovation policy system that is more in line with international practices, actively promote international scientific and technological cooperation, and enhance the attractiveness of global innovation resource elements.
Second, unleash the full potential of data elements. Data is a basic strategic resource and a key factor of production for the country. As an emerging industry based on data generation, collection, storage, processing, analysis, and service, the big data industry has the advantages of fast speed, accurate accuracy, and high value, which can activate the potential of data elements, promote productivity reform and innovation, and form new quality productivity. To fully unleash the potential of data elements, it is necessary to promote the construction of a data standardization system, establish a unified national standard for software and hardware such as data formats, interfaces, and storage, improve general specifications for data registration, transactions, and services, improve the quality of data supply, and form a more complete and coherent data chain; Promote the confirmation, flow, and sharing of data rights, improve the data property rights registration system, establish and improve the data pricing system and data asset operation system, and ensure that data can be flowed and used; Innovate data development and utilization mechanisms, strengthen the traction of scenario demand, break through circulation barriers, and promote the deepening of the application of data in key areas such as intelligent manufacturing, commercial circulation, transportation and logistics, financial services, and medical and health care.
Third, a virtuous circle of "science and technology, industry and finance" should be formed. The smooth cycle of "science and technology-industry-finance" is an important channel for the industrialization of new technologies, and it is also an important realization mechanism for the continuous generation of new quality productive forces. It is necessary to break through the blocking points that restrict circulation, accelerate the pace of industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain and capital chain, and cultivate fertile soil for the growth of new quality productivity. In this process, it is necessary not only to smooth the "science and technology-industry" cycle, carry out key core technology research and original technological innovation, promote the joint research of industry, university and research, and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain industrial chain, but also smooth the "industry-finance" cycle, and do a solid job in science and technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance. At the same time, it is necessary to improve the policy system of science and technology, industry and finance, strengthen the cohesion and communication of science and technology, industry and financial departments, promote the deployment of innovation chain around the industrial chain, lay out the industrial chain around the innovation chain, and improve the capital chain around the innovation chain.
Fourth, speed up the construction of a unified national market. In today's world, the most scarce resource is the market. The huge consumer demand released by China's super-large-scale market provides rich early application scenarios for the industrialization of cutting-edge technologies, and has become an important factor for the continuous formation and development of new quality productivity. On the one hand, it is necessary to further release the potential of the strong domestic market, cultivate and expand new consumption, vigorously develop digital consumption, green consumption, and healthy consumption, and actively cultivate new consumption growth points such as smart homes, cultural and entertainment tourism, sports events, and domestic "trendy products", so as to stimulate potential consumption; On the other hand, it is necessary to promote the unification of rules, standards, and systems in a strong domestic market, speed up the construction of a large national unified market that is highly efficient, standardized, fair competition, and fully open, and promote the smooth flow of commodity factors and resources in a wider scope.
Fifth, strengthen the cultivation of high-quality talents. The key factor that drives the formation of new qualitative productivity is people. The development of disruptive technological innovation and new technology requires not only a large number of strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, outstanding engineers, great craftsmen and highly skilled talents, but also a large number of entrepreneurs and investment talents with forward-looking vision, grasp future needs, be familiar with the trend of technological change, have insight into business opportunities, and can integrate relevant industrial elements to promote the commercialization of products and services. Therefore, we should not only strengthen the cultivation of talents in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, engineering, and new engineering and new medicine, and form a team of highly skilled personnel who master new science and technology and engineering technology, but also create an environment for entrepreneurs and investment talents who are familiar with business models and management methods to stand out and provide talent support for the formation of new quality productivity.
The author, Sheng Chaoxun, is the director and researcher of the Strategic Policy Office of the China Academy of Macroeconomics